US Patent Issued to Rapiscan Holdings on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for monitoring output energy of a high-energy x-ray source" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,882, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Rapiscan Holdings Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring output energy of a high-energy x-ray source" was invented by James Ollier (Huyton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to monitor output energy of an X-ray source being used to emit a fan beam for scanning an object in a scanning system include a segmented detector positioned between a target of the X-ray source and the object. The segmented detector has at least two segments that are placed to cover at least two angular ranges of the fan beam and generate corresponding two sets of energy...